Map: Oil activity centers on Fort Collins' northern tip

This map shows the location of the Fort Collins Field, which overlaps the Hearthfire Subdivision in the northern tip of Fort Collins city limits.(Photo: Courtesy of Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission)

Potential oil and gas activity in Fort Collins is largely concentrated on an area known as the Fort Collins Field, which overlaps the northernmost boundary of city limits.

Pump jacks located in the Hearthfire Subdivision near Richard's Lake have often been used to illustrate how residential development and the oil and gas industry have come in close proximity.

Now that the city's five-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction process, has been overturned, fracking could happen within city limits. However, wells have not been fracked in Fort Collins for at least two years, and there are currently no pending or issued permits to drill within city limits, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission data shows.

This map does not show Soapstone Prairie, which is also city property and subject to oil and gas development.